{"id":26620,"date":"2011-09-12T12:15:21","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T11:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=26620"},"modified":"2017-01-09T15:54:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T15:54:48","slug":"germany-facebook-agrees-to-work-with-government-on-privacy-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=26620","title":{"rendered":"Germany: Facebook agrees to work with government on privacy code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Facebook agrees to work with government on privacy code\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/tech-europe\/2011\/09\/09\/facebook-signs-up-to-german-privacy-code\/?mod=google_news_blog\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook has agreed<\/a> to work with the <a title=\"Index on censorship - Germany\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/germany\/\" target=\"_blank\">German<\/a> government on a code of conduct aimed at privacy protection. The code, agreed at a meeting on Wednesday between German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich and Facebook&#8217;s director of policy in Europe, Richard Allen, will cover issues such as media literacy and data transmission in accordance with German law. The agreement follows discussions around Facebook\u2019s adherence to German data protection laws. Last month, Thilo Weichert, a data protection commissioner in Northern Germany, claimed <a title=\"Index on Censorship - German state bans Facebook's &quot;Like&quot; button\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.indexoncensorship.org\/2011\/08\/22\/german-state-bans-facebooks-%E2%80%9Clike%E2%80%9D-button\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u2019s \u201cLike\u201d button violated German data protection laws<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has agreed to work with the German government on a code of conduct aimed at privacy protection. The code, agreed at a meeting on Wednesday between German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich and Facebook&#8217;s director of policy in Europe, Richard Allen, will cover issues such as media literacy and data transmission in accordance with German [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585,581],"tags":[3788,136,574,7361,269,1721],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26620"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26641,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26620\/revisions\/26641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}